I don't know which one of those would make me sicker. Nava I can possibly understand, but why in the f*** would they trade Ross? The guy is killing LH pitching. We need his RH power.
As I recall Tito expressed some regret about Meredith. I think the Sox bullpen was really short-handed for that game and Tito had to plead with Epstein to bring up a reliever. He said later he wished he hadn't rushed Meredith into that situation.
Ha ha, look, this FO ruins everything it touches, and as for Bard, as you can see in Fred's post above, he, Elk, Pumpsie, Muggah and Brennan called this.
Fair enough. I've been watching the Sox a long time, though, and I haven't seen many players have a better on-base stretch than he is having for this long.
I think a guy who could help Bard is Varitek. Bard had amazing success throwing to Varitek.
Career IP ERA OPS K BB K/BB
Varitek 80.1 1.79 0.523 95 20 4.75
Salty 75.1 4.66 0.690 64 45 1.42
Vmart 51.1 3.16 0.669 51 23 2.22
2011
Varitek 31.1 1.44 0.472 33 5 6.60
Salty 39.2 4.54 0.579 40 19 2.11
Youk was a huge contributor for several years and an integral part of the 2007 championship. I'd like to see him get traded to an NL team and have some more productive years.
The one I mean was in the 6th inning.
I dunno, fellow poster 700 Hitter has put forth a pretty solid argument why Pedroia should stay in the lineup. I think it might be time to move him down in the order until he comes out of this.
IRT 'best players of all time', winning the Finals MVP isn't necessarily the best measure of that, of course, but basketball does seem to be a game where the best players dominate in the big moments. They've only been awarding Finals MVP since 1969 so obviously this list of winners is omitting Bill Russell and other greats.
Non-bigs
Michael Jordan 6
Magic Johnson 3
Larry Bird 2
Kobe Bryant 2
Bigs
Tim Duncan 3
Shaquille O'Neal 3
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar 2
Hakeem Olajuwon 2